Example sentences of "[noun] being [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eventual cost of the conversion was £238,000 and the reconstruction period extended to fifteen months , the work being completed in the last quarter of 1980 . |
| 2 | Italy , Russia , and Austria lagged further behind , their major period of industrialization being concentrated in the last three decades before the First World War . |
| 3 | The hard core of Marx 's historical materialism would be the assumption that social change is to be explained in terms of class struggle , the nature of the classes and the details of the struggle being determined in the last instance by the economic base . |
| 4 | The à la volée method of dégorgement , as practised by Dom Pérignon and others , was totally inadequate for the enormous quantities of Champagne being produced in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | He was an inventor , and designed quick-selling gadgets which he used his showman-like qualities to retail at the many regional and metropolitan exhibitions being organized in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | increase in the proportion of employees being trained over the last seven years alone . |